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State Association for the
Preservation of Iowa Cemeteries

Our Pioneer Cemetery Concerns

Iowa law defines a Pioneer Cemetery as one in which there have been 12 or fewer burials in the past 50 years. If you know of a cemetery that qualifies for this distinction, and would like to have it recognized, please contact the State Association for the Preservation of Iowa Cemeteries to have it recorded. See our PURPOSE below.

                           Iowa Cemetery Laws and Procedures

                  Previous Carter Award Winners

Nominations due July 1 each year

Keith Street Memorial Award Application

Applications due 9-1 each year

(No applications received in 2009)

Cemetery Survey Form

E-Mail List: To join the Iowa Cemeteries e-mail list hosted by SAPIC member Fred Reese, sending an e-mail message to  IA-Cemeteries-L-request@rootsweb.com  Leave the subject area blank. Put only the word subscribe within the message and nothing else. You will receive a confirmation that you have been subscribed to the list, along with instructions on participating. There are hundreds of folks already on this list who monitor it and post to it, so every post is not necessarily from a member of SAPIC. Most folks who are on the list are genealogists searching for relatives or directions to a cemetery in the state or have questions about our cemeteries. Everyone does what they can to answer them.

Suggestions for forming a Cemetery Commission

SAPIC MEMBERSHIP

OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS

CEMETERY COMMISSIONS
IN IOWA

GRAVESTONE REPAIR

ABOUT SAPIC

RELATED LINKS

SAPIC's PURPOSE

SAPIC was organized in 1996 with the following goals:

A. To identify all cemeteries in Iowa

B. To take such measurements as are necessary, possible and reasonable to protect these cemeteries, and the monuments contained in them, from danger due to natural causes or from human encroachment.

C. To provide guidance and educational materials for use by the people entrusted with the preservation of these cemeteries and monuments contained in them.

D. To compile and distribute information about the proper maintenance techniques for these cemeteries and the monuments contained in them.

E. To provide advice and information to legislative bodies empowered to pass legislation creating a legal framework for the protection, the preservation and maintenance of these cemeteries and the monuments contained in them are enforced.

F. To act as a monitor of the administrative and management personal of these cemeteries, to ensure that the legal measures for the protection, preservation and maintenance of the cemeteries and the monuments in them are enforced.

            IOWA GRAVESTONE PHOTO PROJECT

Researchers may submit photos and transcriptions of their ancestor's gravestones and connect with yet-to-be-discovered cousins in the process.

This site, which is hosted by RootsWeb, was last updated Nov. 3, 2009